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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 21, 1998Van Zandt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1998, 6:32 PM CST for Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 21, 1998, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Jan 21, 1998, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 21, 6:45 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Canton, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 382 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 539 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 21, 4:43 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
443 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1255 PM    ENNIS                     TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   ELLIS

0235 PM    ROGERS                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   BELL                           DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN
                                          ROGERS AND HOLLAND IN BELL
                                          COUNTY.

0315 PM    BUCKHOLTS                 TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   MILAM                          ONE INCH HAIL PARTIALLY
                                          COVERING THE GROUND.

0318 PM    HEARNE                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   ROBERTSON                      HEARNE POLICE REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

0330 PM    ELLIOTT                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   ROBERTSON

0405 PM    GARLAND                   TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   DALLAS

Local storm report, Jan 21, 4:43 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
443 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1255 PM    ENNIS                     TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   ELLIS

0235 PM    ROGERS                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   BELL                           DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN
                                          ROGERS AND HOLLAND IN BELL
                                          COUNTY.

0315 PM    BUCKHOLTS                 TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   MILAM                          ONE INCH HAIL PARTIALLY
                                          COVERING THE GROUND.

0318 PM    HEARNE                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   ROBERTSON                      HEARNE POLICE REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

0330 PM    ELLIOTT                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   ROBERTSON

0405 PM    GARLAND                   TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   DALLAS

Local storm report, Jan 21, 4:48 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
448 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0120 PM    BROWNSBORO                TX   .88 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   HENDERSON                      NICKEL HAIL

0145 PM    1 SE CANTON               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   VAN ZANDT

0425 PM    MURPHY                    TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   COLLIN                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY MURPHY F.D.

Local storm report, Jan 21, 4:57 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
457 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0435 PM    HILLTOP LAKES             TX   TORNADO
01/21/98   LEON                           POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC TO SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE

0435 PM    HILLTOP LAKES             TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98   LEON                           IN ADDITION TO A POSSIBLE
                                          TORNADO...GOLFBALL HAIL
                                          WAS REPORTED

Local storm report, Jan 21, 5:24 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.